Fortunately, Lu Ming didn't die.

He was covered in wounds, blood all over his body.

He was laid down on a recliner by someone, panting heavily for a while before slowly calming down.

Thank goodness, thank goodness.

If two people had died in a moment, I guess everyone would have collapsed.

Colleagues looked at each other in panic and unease.

I forced myself to stay calm and reopened the computer.

After the computer restarted, several pop-up windows appeared from the internal software once again.

Without exception, all sent by the VP in charge of HR and Finance—

"Everyone: The company has encountered an unexpected situation, everyone stay calm and do not move, someone will handle it!"

"Everyone: The project must go live on time tonight. If there are any issues, individuals will be held accountable!"

"Everyone: Considering the special circumstances tonight, the company has decided to provide a cash subsidy of 2000 RMB to every employee who clocks out after 12 o'clock, with 200 RMB to be distributed immediately after work, the rest to be paid in 9 installments along with the salary."

"Everyone: After the power is restored, ensure orderly office operation, strictly prohibit taking photos and videos, and do not spread them externally. Violators will be held accountable!"

...

"Tsk tsk, I knew it, there are no good people in the upper echelons, huh? 2000 bucks divided into installments, why not just make you broke!"

Da Pan muttered under his breath beside me.

"Ze ge, let's go, let's smoke one and relax. It's too stuffy."

Da Pan stood up, indicating for me to follow him out.

Indeed, with all that back and forth, I was feeling nervous, and it was necessary to unwind for a bit.

As Da Pan and I walked past the door, we had a rough idea of how Lu Ming got injured.

"Serves him right!"

Da Pan spat on the ground.

He had long been unhappy with Lu Ming, the head of the department.

To the left of the company entrance were the restrooms and smoking room.

Straight ahead were the corridor and the shared elevator area.

To the right was the fire shutter door leading to the stairwell.

Some of us smokers, sometimes too lazy to go to the smoking room, would also smoke in the stairwell.

Normally, the shutter door would not be lowered.

But at this moment, not only was the shutter door partially down, it had been severely damaged.

Blood stains covered the rolled-up iron sheets, and the walls and floors were dotted with blood.

Several bloody handprints looked fierce, sticking to the wall, even peeling off some of the putty.

"Lu Ming probably wanted to smoke in the stairwell just now, got hit by the shutter door, got rolled inside, lucky not to die."

I sighed for Lu Ming.

I glanced at Da Pan and whispered, "Who knows, maybe what the group said was true..."

"Ze ge, don't scare me, the new generation of young people are afraid of being poor. I'm afraid of a prank?"

"I was just saying."

Da Pan grumbled, "Look at the damn rules, isn't it said that the smoking room is dangerous? I want to try it out! It's all the bullshit leaders playing tricks to fool the employees!"

Crack!

Da Pan lit up a cigarette.

Suddenly, I seemed to see a red spot on his forehead, which then disappeared.

I shook my head, thinking it must have been a flickering from the cigarette butt he lit...

It was at this moment that I felt something blowing on the back of my neck.

When I turned my head, there was nothing there...

"Don't smoke here, let's go a few steps to the toilet, quickly!"

At this point, I was starting to believe in the anonymous rules in the group—

"Rule 2: Smoking in public places is prohibited! Warning: The original smoking room is extremely dangerous and temporarily not to be used!"

I pulled Da Pan towards the restroom, which was opposite the smoking room.

True to form, Da Pan didn't believe it, and as soon as he put his foot down, he stepped into the smoking room.

"Ha, Ze ge, just watch, nothing will happen. I see Xiao Zhao has already been scared to tears, hahaha."

I paused for a few seconds, seeing that Da Pan was fine, I didn't think much of it and continued into the room, lighting a cigarette.

But...

Clang—

An ear-splitting sound rang out!

And I saw that Da Pan was frozen in place!

His eyes slightly narrowed, and a twitch appeared at the corner of his mouth.

The cigarette in his lips dropped to the ground.

"Da Pan?"

The metal garbage bin around the corner of the smoking room was the source of the clang.

At this moment, the trash can was bouncing around on the ground, completely cracked, with blood covering the metal surface.

Behind the trash can, emerged two company-purchased floor-cleaning robots, spinning wildly!

The speed was unnaturally fast, faster than it should have been!

At this point, Da Pan also looked towards me.

"Ze ge, let's go."

His expression was a bit strange.

Saying that, Da Pan tried to walk out.

But as soon as he exerted force on his upper body, he collapsed to the ground!

A huge wound in the middle of his body had split him into two!

His lower body fell to the ground with a thud.

And his upper body was struggling to crawl towards me!

"Ze ge, help me!"

"It hurts...it hurts so much! Bro, save me! I'm begging you!"

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